# October 6 *Lectures from this day: 9 recordings* --- **[[spoken/721006me.ber|Meeting at University — October 6, 1972, Berkeley]]** Co-ordinator of event: Languages and literatures Professor van Buitenen. On the left Professor Jhani, Professor Staal, Professor Goldman. Mrs. Staal, Mrs Jhani, Paṇḍita Derbhatta. Co-ordinator of event: [laughs] Paṇḍita Derbhatta who is with our department this year and the Professor Judah from the Theosophical Union is also with us. We have asked the Svāmī to be with us this evening to discuss some of the social aspects of the International Society for Kṛṣṇa consciousness. He has favoured us with a paper with some of his commentary on the scriptures regarding the social, political and economic effects and if you would like to make some comment about this and then we would like to discuss these matters with you. We have the paper so we are prepared to ask you some questions. If that is all right with you after you have made your comments. --- **[[spoken/721006r1.ber|Room Conversation — October 6, 1972, Berkeley]]** **Prabhupāda:** [indistinct] then why you are so much proud of seeing? Therefore *Vedānta-sūtra* says, *śāstra-cakṣuṣā* we have to see through perfect book of knowledge. Not this eyes... So our proposition is that Kṛṣṇa the Supreme Personality of Godhead the knowledge He has given us is perfect and if we follow this perfect knowledge then everything will be perfect. That is our position. **Guest:** Svāmī I have a question. You said that quoting the scriptures that in this world all governments are evil. **Guest:** You said quoting the scriptures that in this world all men being like *śūdras* all governments are evil. Are some governments worse than others? Is the communism. --- **[[spoken/721006tr.ber|Tour — October 6, 1972, Berkeley]]** --- **[[spoken/731006bg.bom|Bg 13.13 — October 6, 1973, Bombay]]** *jñeyam*—knowable; *yat*—that; *tat*—which; *pravakṣyāmi—*I shall now explain; *yat*—which; *jñātvā*—knowing; *amṛtam*—nectar; *aśnute*—taste; *anādi*—beginningless; *mat-param*—subordinate to Me; *brahma—*spirit; *na*—neither; *sat*—cause; *tat*—that; *na*—nor; *asat*—effect; *ucyate*—is called. **Translation:** **"I shall now explain the knowable, knowing which you will taste the eternal. This is beginningless, and it is subordinate to Me. It is called Brahman, the spirit, and it lies beyond the cause and effect of this material world." --- **[[spoken/741006sb.may|SB 1.8.26 — October 6, 1974, Māyāpur]]** **Nitāi:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] **Translation:** "My Lord, Your Lordship can easily be approached, but only by those who are materially exhausted. One who is on the path of material progress, trying to improve himself with respectable parentage, great opulence, high education and bodily beauty, cannot approach You with sincere feeling." --- **[[spoken/751006mw.dur|Morning Walk — October 6, 1975, Durban]]** **Prabhupāda:** English, economics, philosophy or..., mostly Scottish... I was educated in Scottish Churches College. The philosophy professor, Dr. W. S. Urquhart, he was very friendly to me, very kind, just like father. [break] ...he became vice-chancellor. He was a very learned man, and very nice man, W. S. Urquhart. **Prabhupāda:** Yes, yes. [chuckles] Yes. No, not only he, another professor, Dr. Stephen, he also said. That's a fact. Artificially they are trying. It has no meaning. But by agitation you can do anything. That is another thing. But that is not the fact. [break] *Harer nāma harer nāma harer nāmaiva kevalam* [*Cc Ādi* 7.76]. These are all Indian quarters? No. **Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:** This area? No, I think this is more European. But where we're staying is Indian area. It's all Indian. --- **[[spoken/761006sb.vrn|SB 1.7.47-48 — October 6, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** **Translation:** "My lord, do not make the wife of Droṇācārya cry like me. I am aggrieved for the death of my sons. She need not cry constantly like me." --- **[[spoken/771006r1.vrn|Room Conversation & arrivals from New Vrindavan — October 6, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:** We'll print more. Now we are printing more books for them. We are printing as many books as they order. So as they increase their order, we increase our print. **Hari-śauri:** That's for our Christmas distribution. That will arrive just in time for the month of December. **Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:** Yes, England. America, we are thinking of printing small books for them, because for America to get lower price on all books they have to print many hundred thousand. And so many books of yours are out of print, out of stock with BBT Los Angeles. But we can get the same price on a lower run. That means that on lower investment we can print the same books, and this way at least they will have some books in stock of every book you have published. So if somebody wants some book, they won't say that they don't have it, but they can supply it. So I've been writing about this to Rāmeśvara Swami. --- **[[spoken/771006r2.vrn|Room Conversation — October 6, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** Of course, if I die, there is nothing to be ruined. You are all participants. So organize this farm project, simple living. Human life is meant for God realization. Try to help them. This is my... **Paramānanda:** We're always feeling your presence very strongly, Śrīla Prabhupāda, simply by your teachings and your instructions. We're always meditating on your instructions. **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** Śrīla Prabhupāda? Mother Satyabhāmā, she wrote a short note to you. Should I read it to you? --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1967/671006_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1968/681006_advaita.md|Letter to Advaita, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/681006_alan_ginsberg.md|Letter to Alan Ginsberg, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/681006_brahmananda.md|Letter to Brahmananda, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/681006_dinesh.md|Letter to Dinesh, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/681006_jayapataka.md|Letter to Jayapataka, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/681006_purusottama.md|Letter to Purusottama, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/681006_uddhava.md|Letter to Uddhava, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/691006_gaurasundara.md|Letter to Gaurasundara, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/701006_krsna_dasa.md|Letter to Krsna Dasa, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1972/721006_tamala_krsna.md|Letter to Tamala Krsna, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1973/731006_karandhara.md|Letter to Karandhara, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/731006_mukunda.md|Letter to Mukunda, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1974/741006_bhurijana.md|Letter to Bhurijana, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/741006_madhavananda.md|Letter to Madhavananda, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1975/751006_revatinandana.md|Letter to Revatinandana, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1976/761006_dr._chatterjee.md|Letter to Dr. Chatterjee, 1976]]